First-order variance of travel time in nonstationary formations

Water Resources Research

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Cirpka, Olaf A ^a   Nowak, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adjoint state method; First order second moment method; Nonstationarity; Periodic embedding; Travel time

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GEOLOGY; HEATING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BINARY MEDIUM; NONSTATIONARY FORMATIONS;

WATER RESOURCES;

FOURIER TRANSFORM; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 2042497976     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003WR002851     Document Type: Article

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